Why were so many famous writers antisemitic? - /lit/ (#24578917)

Anonymous
7/24/2025, 8:18:57 PM No.24578917
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Authors of the New Testament - Antisemitic
Shakespeare - Antisemitic
Dostoyevsky - Antisemitic
Céline - Antisemitic
Voltaire - Antisemitic
Wagner - Antisemitic
Baudelaire - Antisemitic
Dickens - Antisemitic
Kant - Antisemitic
Shaw - Antisemitic
Hamsun - Antisemitic
Chesterton - Antisemitic
Pound - Antisemitic
Eliot - Antisemitic
Hemingway - Antisemitic
Dahl - Antisemitic
Quevedo - Antisemitic
Browne - Antisemitic
Luther - Antisemitic
Highsmith - Antisemitic
Marlowe - Antisemitic
Boccaccio - Antisemitic
Solzhenitsyn - Antisemitic
Hume - Antisemitic
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Anonymous
7/24/2025, 8:23:17 PM No.24578925
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They were all intelligent people that could easily connect the dots. Simple as.
Anonymous
7/24/2025, 8:31:51 PM No.24578938
>>24578917 (OP)
Why were so many famous writers faggots?
>Authors of the New Testament
Selfhatingfaggots.
>Shakespeare
Halffaggot.
>Dostoevsky
Repressedfaggot.
>Celine
Faggot.
>Voltaire
Frenchfaggot.
>Baudelaire
Superfrenchfaggot.
>Dickens
Faggot.
>Kant
Would've been a faggot if he knew what faggotry was.
>Shaw
Commiefaggot.
>Hamsun
Faggot.
>Chesterton
Fatfaggot.
>Pound
Would've been a faggot if he knew what faggotry was.
>Eliot
Faggot.
>Hemingway
Transvestitefaggot.
>Dahl
Weirdfaggot.
>Quevedo
Faggot.
>Browne
Urnfaggot.
>Luther
Faggot.
>Highsmith
Lesbian. Can't be a faggot because a faggot has to be a man but if she was a man she'd be a faggot.
>Marlowe
Jealousfaggot.
>Boccaccio
Italian. Also a faggot.
>Solzhenitsyn
Prisonfaggot.
>Hume
Fatfaggot.
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Anonymous
7/24/2025, 8:44:44 PM No.24578968
>>24578917 (OP)
Because it’s obvious that the jews are evil.
Anonymous
7/24/2025, 8:45:14 PM No.24578969
>>24578917 (OP)

They were not antisemitic, at all! real antisemitism is just ignoring the jews, as if they were irrelevant, by writing about them all the time, they have given them grand importance and mythos!
Anonymous
7/24/2025, 8:48:41 PM No.24578977
>>24578917 (OP)
Why did they all die while Israel still exists and owns the USA and Europe? Really makes you think.
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Anonymous
7/24/2025, 8:58:42 PM No.24578999
>start with shakespear's sonnets
>"HAVE WHITE BABIES YOU ROASTIE WHORE"
Is this the forgotten power of the Englishman?
Anonymous
7/24/2025, 8:59:58 PM No.24579001
>>24578977
why were 600 gorillion jews killed in the holocaust if they were so strong? checkmate, jew.
Anonymous
7/24/2025, 9:00:52 PM No.24579002
>>24578977
If Israel owns the US and Europe they are rapidly engineering a situation in which there will be nobody left to protect them from getting nuked
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Anonymous
7/24/2025, 9:02:43 PM No.24579006
>>24578938
Careful with those slurs Shlomo.
Anonymous
7/24/2025, 9:05:42 PM No.24579011
>>24579002
2 more weeks?
Anonymous
7/24/2025, 9:11:48 PM No.24579024
>>24578917 (OP)
Tolkien- philosemitic
Tolstoy- philosemitic
Sir Walter Scott- philosemitic
Lovecraft- was antisemitic but repented and married a Jew
Chesterton -was antisemitic but repented and married a Jew
Sir Arthur Canon doyle- philosemitic to the extreme, fought to free Jewish prisoners who had been wrongly accused of crimes
Dickens- asked forgiveness of Jewish people for portraying them the way he did because he decided he was punching down
Mary Evans/George Elio- philosemitic
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Anonymous
7/24/2025, 9:12:54 PM No.24579028
>>24579024
Meant C.S Lewis instead of Chesterton but Chesterton also regretted his earlier antisemitism
Anonymous
7/24/2025, 9:28:54 PM No.24579058
>>24579024
Emile Zola should be added to the list
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Anonymous
7/24/2025, 10:09:04 PM No.24579168
>>24579024
Dickens was attacked by the Jewish bankster and feigned an apology
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliza_Davis_(letter_writer)
> Eliza Davis, whose husband had purchased the lease on Dickens's home in 1860 when he had put it up for sale,[1] wrote to Dickens in 1863,[1] protesting at his portrayal of Fagin, arguing that he had "encouraged a vile prejudice against the despised Hebrew",[2][8] and that he had done a great wrong to the Jewish people.
Anonymous
7/24/2025, 10:12:03 PM No.24579177
>Ivan Turgenev's brain was found to be one of the largest on record, weighing 2,012 g (4 lb 7 oz).[11]
>Turgenev was known for his pejorative descriptions of Jews, for example in his story "The Jew" (1847).
Anonymous
7/24/2025, 10:17:24 PM No.24579186
>>24578917 (OP)
>Authors of the New Testament - Antisemitic
By this standard you may as well include the authors of the OT also. Basically a big log of the Jews fucking up
Anonymous
7/24/2025, 10:31:16 PM No.24579209
I never understood why Dickens gave Fagin a name at all
He calls him the "Jew" throughout
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Anonymous
7/24/2025, 10:34:14 PM No.24579216
>>24578977
Do people really think that because a place got named israel on the map like 70 years ago that it’s the same israel from the Bible? Surely not.. right?
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Anonymous
7/24/2025, 10:46:09 PM No.24579248
>>24579024
>bunch of genreslop
Bravo
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Anonymous
7/24/2025, 10:47:01 PM No.24579253
>>24579209
lol
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Anonymous
7/24/2025, 10:48:32 PM No.24579261
>>24579248
>Middlemarch
>Le beit humaine
>genre
My /lit/ prof would sob
Anonymous
7/24/2025, 10:50:14 PM No.24579264
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>>24579216
Christians do.
See: Ted Cruz and evangelicals
https://erlc.com/policy-content/israel/
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Anonymous
7/24/2025, 10:50:17 PM No.24579266
>>24579253
It's a common problem with White dudes; they just call their Eastern characters by their race instead of by a name. Read an 1800s books and you see funny shit like "The Jew" "the Arab" and "The Persian and "the China woman"
Anonymous
7/24/2025, 10:50:23 PM No.24579267
>>24578917 (OP)
Christianity, more than anything.
Obviously they make significant exceptions. Jews litter history with important works.

Spinoza
Marx
Husserl
Benjamin
Freud

Don't forget the slew of Jewish scientists leading up to WWII... Einstein, Bohr, Oppenheimer.

There is no reason to disown the Jew. Especially the German Jew, ironically. Nietzsche talks about this.
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Anonymous
7/24/2025, 10:51:35 PM No.24579271
>>24579264
Ted is right; if Europe kicks the Muslim migrants out in 500 years I think it would also be Europe again
Anonymous
7/24/2025, 10:53:05 PM No.24579274
>>24579267
Countries that follow neither Christianity nor Islam have little anti-semitism
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Anonymous
7/24/2025, 10:54:41 PM No.24579279
>>24578938
>i said it so it‘s true

>>>24579024
Only good author is Lovecraft and you got the order wrong (absentmindedly married a jew and left on seeing the truth)

>>24579267
Only good one is Spinoza. I‘ll give you him.
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Anonymous
7/24/2025, 10:58:41 PM No.24579289
>>24579264
Evangelicals*, not all Christians.
Anonymous
7/24/2025, 11:02:14 PM No.24579300
>>24579279
Tolstoy is pretty universally considered good even by literary snobs
Anonymous
7/25/2025, 4:46:24 AM No.24580071
>>24578917 (OP)
Shakespeare's Shylock is significantly more sympathetic than previous portrayals of the same character. It's why they still teach both readings at drama schools.
Anonymous
7/25/2025, 10:29:47 AM No.24580633
>>24579024
>>24579058
Proust as well, no?
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Anonymous
7/25/2025, 10:36:31 AM No.24580645
>>24580633
He was antisemitic.
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Anonymous
7/25/2025, 10:41:09 AM No.24580652
>>24580645
>Proust was an early believer in the innocence of Dreyfus
Hmm, I don't know about that.
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Anonymous
7/25/2025, 10:48:31 AM No.24580666
>>24580652
>Proust referred to Zionists as “Sodomites” and, more significantly, he described many of his Jewish characters using anti-Semitic stereotypes
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Anonymous
7/25/2025, 12:20:46 PM No.24580764
>>24578917 (OP)
Most of these people never hated Jews. They criticized Jews sometimes, or they regarded Jews as a separate people from the native Christians of their own countries, or they used Jewish stereotypes in their writings, but most of them did not regard themselves as antisemites or feel a racial hatred toward Jews. They're only regarded as such today because it's practically impossible to have an honest or nuanced discussion about Jews in the current year.
Anonymous
7/25/2025, 12:55:37 PM No.24580822
>>24578938
oy vey
Anonymous
7/25/2025, 12:57:47 PM No.24580823
>>24580666
>Proust referred to Zionists as “Sodomites”
Alright, so he was anti-Zionist. It's not the same thing. A lot of assimilated European Jews at the time were skeptical or hostile toward Zionism, it was a political dispute, and not necessarily rooted in hatred of Jews.
>he described many of his Jewish characters using anti-Semitic stereotypes
Yeah, and this goes on to explain how Swann is supposedly one of these stereotypes, even though he's one of the more nuanced and sympathetic characters in the entire novel series.

Besides, all of this is from "jewishpress.com" with no citations. Proust was, at best, a loose "self-hating Jew", meaning he mostly had a complex relationship with his own identity, but outright antisemitic he was not.
Anonymous
7/25/2025, 1:10:49 PM No.24580841
>>24580652
You clearly didn't read In Search of Lost Time where he explicitly refers to it.
Anonymous
7/25/2025, 10:09:34 PM No.24581942
>>24578917 (OP)
Who cares? Jews are faggots and deserve scorn wherever they go.
Anonymous
7/25/2025, 10:33:39 PM No.24582019
>>24579274
check out Thailand lmao
Anonymous
7/26/2025, 1:09:23 AM No.24582407
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>>24579279
I will not stand for this Lovecraft slander- he and Sonia were very happy together but he couldn't support the both of them and she moved to a different city for work, promising they would live together once he made it big.

Sadly, nothing he wrote was ever commercially successful during his lifetime and they divorced after several years apart. Fun facts- she was a big Weird Tales/horror fan and they met at a convention, she was 40 and he was 33 when they married, and in a letter to one of her friends she said that Howard was very good in bed.
Anonymous
7/26/2025, 1:18:38 AM No.24582422
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>>24578917 (OP)
Eliot was an anti-Semite;
Schopenhauer was one too;
Richard Strauss and Richard Wagner,
Santayana, Clemenceau,

Henry Ford, Mohammed also,
Juvenal, Roy Campbell, Kant,
H.L. Mencken, Seneca,
Celine, and Henri Montherlant;

Schwarzkopf, Flagstad, Paul de Man,
Hemingway and Wyndham Lewis,
Jonathan Edwards, Andre Gide,
St. Ambrose (and Lindburgh too was)

Shaw, Aquinas, Whistler, Chekhov,
Philip Larkin, ‘Chinese’ Gordon,
Arnold Toynbee, Pound, Karl Barth,
William Shakespeare, Chaucer, Wharton;

Henry James, Mussorgsky, Fichte,
Henry Adams, Gottfried Benn,
St. Jerome and St. Augustine,
Tacitus, Quintilian;

Queen Victoria and Treischke,
Dreiser, Pushkin, Robert Lowell,
e.e. cummmings, Bismarck, Belloc,
H.G. Wells and Roald Dahl;

Marcion and Simone Weil,
Heidegger; Drieu La Rochelle,
Leni Reifenstahl and Luther,
Jean Cocteau; Colette as well;

Julian Assange, Walt Disney,
Dr. Seuss, Coco Chanel;
Winston Churchill, Solzhenitsyn,
Diderot, Drumont, Ravel,

Weininger, Schmitt, Andrew Anglin,
Bobby Fischer, Jung and Belov,
Orwell, Calvin, al-Farabi,
Paul, Peter and Piuses I through XII.

Dostoyevsky, Wolfe, Erasmus,
Ramses, St. John, Gyp, Ernst Rohm,
Igor Stravinsky and Knut Hamsun,
Dickens, Degrelle, Degas.

Shalom.